NET Scheme News 2024 Summer issue 46

In this day and age, not many students venture out to see the world for themselves, leading to a lack of learning experiences which can hinder their thinking. It is no wonder, therefore, that students are clueless when asked to think of relevant ideas for their writing tasks. With the so many educational tools nowadays, teachers at our school had an epiphany: so why not bring the world to them, to let them experience it? In the 2023/24 school year, our school, Lok Sin Tong Leung Kau Kui College, collaborated with the NET Section of the Education Bureau under the “Seed” Project ‘Thinking Routines for Writing: Optimising the Writing Experience Within and Beyond the English Language Classroom’. We hoped to enrich students’ life experience while cultivating their higher-order thinking. To do this, we incorporated the technology of VR Cave and Thinking Routines into one of our units on ‘Volunteering Experiences’. Different angles and perspectives can be adjusted by using a remote control, which allows the class to focus on a point of interest for further analysis. Sub-divided flats in Hong Kong tend to have religious altars. A student commented that “people who live in these poor situations need to hold onto some kind of hope to continue surviving.” Students can still work on their while- viewing tasks when simultaneously being immersed in the virtual space. Teachers can still manage the flow of the VR Cave lesson seamlessly. 10 NET Scheme News Issue 46 Thinking Routines for Writing